Children are getting so fat they may be the first generation to die before their parents, an expert claimed yesterday. Today s youngsters are already falling prey to potential killers such as diabetes because of their weight. Fatty fast- food diets combined with sedentary lifestyles dominated by televisions and computers could mean kids will die tragically young, says Professor Andrew Prentice, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
At the same time, the shape of the human body is going through a huge evolutionary shift because adults are getting so fat. Here in Britain, latest research shows that the average waist size for a man is 36-38in, and may be 42-44, by 2032. This compares with only 32.6in. in 1972.Women s waists have grown from an average of 22in. in 1920 to 24in. in the Fifties and 30in. now. One of the major reasons why children now are at greater risk is that we are getting fatter younger.
In the UK alone, more than one million under- 16s are classed as overweight or obese double the number in the mid Eighties. One in ten four-year- olds are also medically classified as obese.
The obesity pandemic(流行病) an extensive epidemic which started in the US, has now spread to Europe, Australasia, Central America and the Middle East. Many nations now record more than 20 per cent of their population as clinically obese and well over half the population as overweight.
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